Plectostroma

No picture of Plectostroma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plectostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinostromatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 385.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 78 occurrencesSilurian — about 33 of 78 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 45 of 78 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 4 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence426–424 Mya — about 7 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 11 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 1 occurrence418–416 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 5 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 18 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 1 occurrence409–407 Mya — about 1 occurrence407–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–403 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–399 Mya — about 1 occurrence399–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 3 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 3 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440.8 Mya387.95 Mya444 Mya385 Mya

78 occurrences of Plectostroma on record, most of them in the Devonian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

78 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

28 formations

Koneprusy — 49.92°N, 14.07°ESanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.28°WSanta Lucia — 42.88°N, 5.10°WSanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 5.65°WUduvere — 58.23°N, 21.98°EUduvere — 58.27°N, 21.96°ECoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EAcanthopyge — 49.92°N, 14.07°EBursykhirman — 39.20°N, 68.70°ELebanza — 42.97°N, 4.52°WTamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.47°ETamsalu — 58.79°N, 22.83°ETamsalu — 58.84°N, 23.06°ESkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°ESükhbaatar — 46.67°N, 113.27°ETsagaan-Bulag — 44.38°N, 99.45°ESundre — 56.93°N, 18.28°EHohe Warte Limestone — 46.62°N, 12.88°EManlius — 41.97°N, 73.95°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WTrubchin Suite — 48.00°N, 26.00°EWest Khatanzeya — 71.00°N, 58.00°EShemaha — 55.00°N, 60.00°EHilliste — 58.88°N, 23.02°EAktash — 51.58°N, 89.67°EArg — 39.20°N, 68.70°EVentspils — 57.38°N, 21.55°EJuuru — 58.87°N, 22.97°ESauvere — 58.28°N, 21.92°E

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The named rock units Plectostroma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plectostroma and its relatives

Devonian

Where Plectostroma and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Plectostroma, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

29 references

Each of the 78 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 17 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Plectostroma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plectostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nestor 1964